[geeks] [rescue] E250 temperatures

[Phil Stracchino]

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> The way the market is supposed to work, those idiots should lose their 
> homes and some money, and the houses should sell at lower prices to 
> people who are more careful with their money.

The trouble with this is that more than a few people are in situations 
where they can't really afford to buy enough house for their family, but 
they can't afford *not* to buy either.  Try finding an apartment with 
more than three bedrooms.

(Hell, try finding almost any apartment *at all* where you can live with 
your kids and not get continual nastygrams and fines every time one of 
your kids throws a tantrum.  One of our neighbors at the condo we were 
renting in Hudson would pre-emptively file a noise complaint against 
*us* every time *HER* kid threw a late-night tantrum or she and her kid 
got into a screaming fight.  What's worse, most of the time it worked; 
we got the nastygram instead of her, because she was an owner and we 
were just renters, so we weren't entitled to actually talk to the HOA.)

What, you want to rent a house big enough for you and your kids, and pay 
less than it'd cost you to buy it?  Good luck with that.  Renting a 
house, you've got to be paying the owners' mortgage AND their profit margin.


If you have a family and can't easily afford a house, you're between a 
rock and a hard place in most housing markets, especially if you had to 
move to get a job.  You have a very limited range of choices, and pretty 
much all of them are bad.



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